Fifth Grade Computers and Technology - 12 weeks

Students will:

increase their Words Per Minute scores in Keyboarding.
create and modify documents and slideshow presentations with Microsoft Office 2003: Word and PowerPoint.
become familiar with common toolbar controls and formatting concepts in Microsoft Office
Name, identify, and understand how parts of the computer work together to run software, other hardware devices, and store data.
create a movie using Photostory3
- create images in Paint
- import images
- recording a narration
- import sound or music
be introduced to free software such as Google Sketchup, Google Earth, Scratch, and Celestia.
organize their files and folders in Microsoft XP
use Moodle to download and upload files, and access links
take photos with a digital camera and download them to hard drive
edit photos with editing software
Participate in online forums discussions

Week One

Introduction to class
Introduction to Moodle
Classroom Rules and expectation and Parent Letter
Intro to Keyboarding - setup account
Intro to Keyboarding - Lesson One walk through
- Proper Keyboarding Technique
- reasons for learning to keyboard correctly

Week Two

Keyboarding (15 min. daily)
Computer Hardware - Introduction to devices
- Pass around parts of computer
- Magic School Bus Video - Inside the computer
- "How things Work" (2 min video)
Introduction to PowerPoint
- Toolbars
  - Menu
  - Formatting
  - Standard
- Creating new slide
  - Slide Layout
  - Text Boxes
- Inserting Pictures
  - From File
  - from clip art

Week Three

Hardware PowerPoints
- Set Up Show
- Slide Transitions
- custom animations
Input Output devices
Microsoft Word
- Revisit Toolbars
- Creating textboxes
- Ordering Graphics
- Word Art

Week Four

Week Five

Digital Story Telling
- Create Script in Word Processor
  - Using bullets
  - bold
  - indent
Forum Discussion
- Respond to forum question
- reply to others in a forum

Week Six

Week Seven

Fifth Grade Scope and Sequence